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ocialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
By Robert Lawson & Benjamin Powell
SOCIALISM SUCKS AUTHOR #1: Robert Lawson, author of Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World. Lawson holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and is the director of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business.
SOCIALISM SUCKS AUTHOR #2: Benjamin Powell, author of Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World. Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. He is the author or editor of five books and the author of more than 75 scholarly articles and policy studies.
With the hot-button word “socialism” sparking intense political debate as Americans brace for the 2020 presidential election, two U.S. economists have completed a global drinking tour – and a book already at the top of Amazon’s “beer” category – warning that the socialist lure could lead to a drastic dry-up of the country’s adult beverages.
“Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World,” by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell, is billed as a “worldwide tour guide written in plain English” which takes readers on a not-so-luxurious expedition into three countries that have embraced socialism – North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba – using beer as an indicator of economic concern.
“In Cuba, there were only two types of beer, almost the same in alcohol content and both tasted like skunky Budweiser. In North Korea, it was just god awful,” Lawson, who is also the director of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University, told Fox News. “And, in Venezuela, the country has basically run out of beer because the government planners couldn’t import enough barley.”
READ: www.foxnews.com/politics/beer-measure-socialism-failures-new-book
Do We Have to Say It Again?
Socialism Sucks!
Apparently we do. Because today millions of Americans—young and old—are flocking to the socialist banner and chanting, “What do we want? Socialism—the economic system that has impoverished people everywhere and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions! And when do we want it? Now!”
Really?
Most people seem somehow to have missed Economics 101 and do
The LOWE-Down!
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